Can RP fill up 300,000 job orders from Saudi?

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MANILA, Philippines - The recruitment sector expressed apprehension on Monday over the capability of the Philippines to fill up 300,000 positions needed in Saudi Arabia this year.

According to recruitment consultant Emmanuel Geslani, it will be difficult to deploy 300,000 workers to Saudi as the country’s manpower agencies experienced problems in filling up just over 100,000 job orders which the POEA (Philippine Overseas Employment Administration) approved for 2007.

“Recruitment companies are vying with each other in attracting the few remaining qualified Filipino construction workers with free placement and welfare benefits," Geslani said in a statement.

He rebuffed the claim made by acting Labor Secretary Marianito Roque Jr. that the number of Filipino workers in Saudi will reach 1.8 million workers this year, with the additional 300,000 job orders.

Geslani noted that in 2007, only 1,012, 054 workers were deployed, barely breaching the one million mark with the help of 480,000 re-hires and only 350,000 were new-hires, with the sea-based sector adding an additional 250,000 seafarers to the total deployment.

He suggested that DoLE and Tesda (Technical Education and Skills Development Authority) implement a massive manpower training for skilled positions in the construction industry to meet the huge demand in Saudi.

Aside from Saudi, other Middle East countries in the region like the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman are also in the midst of a trillion-dollar construction binge that has increased the demand for overseas workers to those countries in the past three years, according to Geslani.

Based on the record of the POEA, deployment of Filipinos to Dubai and Qatar increased by 200 percent in the past three years.

He said UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman are offering higher salaries to expatriates, compared to companies in Saudi Arabia. – GMANews.TV

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